Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth System Science Data is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comprehensive in situ and remote sensing data set collected during the HALO–(???? ????) 3 aircraft campaign1547
Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation1183
Rates and timing of chlorophyll- a increases and related environmental variables in global temperate and cold-temperate lakes496
A quality-assured dataset of nine radiation components observed at the Shangdianzi regional GAW station in China (2013–2022)349
GSDM-WBT: global station-based daily maximum wet-bulb temperature data for 1981–2020286
Global biogeography of N 2 -fixing microbes: nifH  amplicon database and analytics workflow286
A synthesized field survey database of vegetation and active-layer properties for the Alaskan tundra (1972–2020)252
Reconstructing ocean subsurface salinity at high resolution using a machine learning approach230
LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies227
ASM-SS: the first quasi-global high-spatial-resolution coastal storm surge dataset reconstructed from tide gauge records222
glenglat: a database of global englacial temperatures220
MASCS 1.0: synchronous atmospheric and oceanic data from a cross-shaped moored array in the northern South China Sea during 2014–2015203
Tephra data from varved lakes of the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition: towards a global inventory and better chronologies on the Varved Sediments Database (VARDA)197
An inter-comparison of inverse models for estimating European CH 4 emissions191
Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium182
The JapanFlux2024 dataset for eddy covariance observations covering Japan and East Asia from 1990 to 2023176
A dataset of lake-catchment characteristics for the Tibetan Plateau172
ChinaAI-FSC: a comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000–2022)170
Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean168
High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites163
Using machine learning to construct TOMCAT model and occultation measurement-based stratospheric methane (TCOM-CH4) and nitrous oxide (TCOM-N2O) profile data sets162
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset155
Mapping photovoltaic power plants in China using Landsat, random forest, and Google Earth Engine150
An organic matter database (OMD): consolidating global residue data from agriculture, fisheries, forestry and related industries145
Global anthropogenic emissions (CAMS-GLOB-ANT) for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service simulations of air quality forecasts and reanalyses143
Res-CN (Reservoir dataset in China): hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes across 3254 Chinese reservoirs133
Machine-learning-based reconstruction of long-term global terrestrial water storage anomalies from observed, satellite and land-surface model data122
The Earth Topography 2022 (ETOPO 2022) global DEM dataset120
A daily reconstructed chlorophyll- a dataset in the South China Sea from MODIS using OI-SwinUnet119
Dynamics of China's forest carbon storage: the first 30 m annual aboveground biomass mapping from 1985 to 2023116
FORMS: Forest Multiple Source height, wood volume, and biomass maps in France at 10 to 30 m resolution based on Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) data with a d116
CAMELS-NZ: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for New Zealand112
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) Antarctic automatic weather station data, including surface radiation balance (1995–2022)107
An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery102
Dataset of oil slicks, look-alikes and remarkable SAR signatures obtained from Sentinel-1 data in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea100
Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 176199
Hourly precipitation fields at 1 km resolution over Belgium from 1940 to 2016 based on the analog technique99
Surface current variability in the East Australian Current from long-term high-frequency radar observations97
PM 2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 202296
A dataset of standard precipitation index reconstructed from multi-proxies over Asia for the past 300 years95
The SAIL dataset of marine atmospheric electric field observations over the Atlantic Ocean94
An atlas of seabed biodiversity for Aotearoa New Zealand93
Derivation and compilation of lower-atmospheric properties relating to temperature, wind, stability, moisture, and surface radiation budget over the central Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC92
A 10 m resolution land cover map of the Tibetan Plateau with detailed vegetation types87
China's annual forest age dataset at a 30 m spatial resolution from 1986 to 202286
GCL-Mascon2024: a novel satellite gravimetry mascon solution using the short-arc approach85
The countrywide historical gravity dataset of Lithuanian territory84
A 1 km hourly high-resolution 3D wind field dataset over the Yangtze River Delta incorporating dynamical downscaling, observational assimilation, and land use updates81
A harmonized 2000–2024 dataset of daily river ice concentration and annual phenology for major Arctic rivers80
A high-resolution (0.05°) global seamless continuity record (2002–2023) of near-surface soil freeze-thaw states via passive microwave and optical satellite data79
A merged continental planetary boundary layer height dataset based on high-resolution radiosonde measurements, ERA5 reanalysis, and GLDAS79
British Antarctic Survey's aerogeophysical data: releasing 25 years of airborne gravity, magnetic, and radar datasets over Antarctica79
Hydro-PE: gridded datasets of historical and future Penman–Monteith potential evaporation for the United Kingdom78
Measurement of the ice-nucleating particle concentration using a mobile filter-based sampler on-board of a fixed-wing uncrewed aerial vehicle during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 202277
Location, biophysical and agronomic parameters for croplands in northern Ghana76
The 2023 National Offshore Wind data set (NOW-23)73
AIGD-PFT: the first AI-driven global daily gap-free 4 km phytoplankton functional type data product from 1998 to 202373
A lacustrine surface-sediment pollen dataset covering the Tibetan Plateau and its potential in past vegetation and climate reconstructions73
Estimation of CFC-11 emissions from coal combustion in China70
Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region69
Constructing a 22-year internal wave dataset for the northern South China Sea: spatiotemporal analysis using MODIS imagery and deep learning69
The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies68
The Landscape Fire Scars Database: mapping historical burned area and fire severity in Chile67
Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE): an oceanographic field campaign in the Beaufort Sea67
OCTOPUS database (v.2)65
Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s64
A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s64
Spatiotemporal variability in pH and carbonate parameters on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf between 2014 and 202261
OLIGOTREND, a global database of multi-decadal chlorophyll a and water quality time series for rivers, lakes, and estuaries61
The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product60
Insights into the spatial distribution of global, national, and subnational greenhouse gas emissions in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v8.0)59
Global Carbon Budget 202258
A revisiting of early 18th-century environmental data to identify Gulf of Lion properties before the industrial era58
In situ airborne measurements of atmospheric parameters and airborne sea surface properties related to offshore wind parks in the German Bight during the project X-Wakes58
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China58
A daily sunshine duration (SD) dataset in China from Himawari AHI imagery (2016–2023)57
Capacity building enables unique near-fault observations of the destructive 2025 M w  7.7 Myanmar earthquake57
Bio-optical properties of the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena56
Global gridded NOx emissions using TROPOMI observations56
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region55
Map of forest tree species for Poland based on Sentinel-2 data55
A database of deep convective systems derived from the intercalibrated meteorological geostationary satellite fleet and the TOOCAN algorithm (2012–2020)55
QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany55
Global spatially-distributed sectoral GDP map for disaster risk analysis54
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wood fuel use by households53
The Total Carbon Column Observing Network's GGG2020 data version52
Multitemporal characterization of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach52
The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys51
Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world51
A submesoscale eddy identification dataset in the northwest Pacific Ocean derived from GOCI I chlorophyll  a data based on deep learning50
A continual-learning-based multilayer perceptron for improved reconstruction of three-dimensional nitrate concentrations50
Enhancing long-term vegetation monitoring in Australia: a new approach for harmonising the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer normalised-difference vegetation index (NDVI) with MODIS NDVI50
AltiMaP: altimetry mapping procedure for hydrography data49
Annual hydrographic variability in Antarctic coastal waters infused with glacial inflow49
Data rescue of historical wind observations in Sweden since the 1920s49
SDUST2020 MSS: a global 1′ × 1′ mean sea surface model determined from multi-satellite altimetry data48
CO 2 and hydrography acquired by autonomous surface vehicles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea: data correction and validation48
Attenuated atmospheric backscatter profiles measured by the CO 2 Sounder lidar in the 2017 ASCENDS/ABoVE airborne campaign47
A hyperspectral and multi-angular synthetic dataset for algorithm development in waters of varying trophic levels and optical complexity47
French coastal network for carbonate system monitoring: the CocoriCO 2 dataset46
EARice10: a 10 m resolution annual rice distribution map of East Asia for 202346
A 30 m annual maize phenology dataset from 1985 to 2020 in China46
High spatiotemporal resolution traffic CO 2 emission maps derived from Floating Car Data (FCD) for 20 European cities (2023)45
The ISLAS2020 field campaign: studying the near-surface exchange process of stable water isotopes during the arctic wintertime45
Global open-ocean daily turbulent heat flux dataset (1992–2020) from SSM/I via deep learning44
A framework for gridded estimates of ammonia emissions from agriculture in South Asia44
A hydrogeomorphic dataset for characterizing catchment hydrological behavior across the Tibetan Plateau43
Mapping global non-floodplain wetlands42
25-year, quarterly land change maps of China's Loess Plateau reveal long-term and substantial water-induced soil erosion mitigation42
Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data41
A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires41
Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research40
GLC_FCS30D: the first global 30 m land-cover dynamics monitoring product with a fine classification system for the period from 1985 to 2022 generated using dense-time-series Landsat imagery and the co40
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) daily and monthly level-3 products of atmospheric trace gas columns40
Global and national CO 2 uptake by cement carbonation from 1928 to 202440
Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–202239
Global source–receptor-relationship database for integrated tropospheric ozone observations from multiplatform datasets in western North America during 1994–202139
PaleoRiada: a new integrated spatial database of palaeofloods in Spain39
Meteorological and hydrological data from the Alder Creek watershed, SW Ontario38
Long-term sea surface temperature time series from Malin Head, Ireland38
A 45-year hydrological and planktonic time series in the South Bight of the North Sea38
Lagoon hydrodynamics of pearl farming islands: the case of Gambier (French Polynesia)38
The complete 3-year dataset of 4STAR sky-scans from ORACLES 2016–201837
A coarse pixel-scale ground “truth” dataset based on global in situ site measurements to support validation and bias correction of satellite surface albedo products37
A global 5 km monthly potential evapotranspiration dataset (1982–2015) estimated by the Shuttleworth–Wallace model37
A gridded (0.1°  ×  0.1°) methane emission dataset for India for 2023 to redefine global climate studies36
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications – version three36
CALC-2020: a new baseline land cover map at 10 m resolution for the circumpolar Arctic36
Reprocessing of eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) profiles from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas over the time period 1999–2019 with a full metadata upgrade36
Spatial and morphometric analysis of a comprehensive dataset of loess sinkholes from a small basin in the Chinese Loess Plateau36
SDUST2023BCO: a global seafloor model determined from a multi-layer perceptron neural network using multi-source differential marine geodetic data36
An hourly 0.02° total precipitable water dataset for all-weather conditions over the Tibetan Plateau through the fusion of observations of geostationary and multi-source microwave satellites36
CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system35
Ten years of 1 Hz solar irradiance observations at Cabauw, the Netherlands, with cloud observations, variability classifications, and statistics35
Countrywide digital surface models and vegetation height models from historical aerial images35
Editorial: Science, data and society35
A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 2000–202035
A long-term high-resolution air quality reanalysis with a public-facing air quality dashboard over the Contiguous United States (CONUS)35
Three years of soil moisture observations by a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster at an agricultural research site in north-east Germany34
Temporal and spatial mapping of theoretical biomass potential across the European Union34
National-scale sub-meter mapping of Spartina alterniflora in mainland China 202034
Bivalve monitoring over French coasts: multi-decadal records of carbon and nitrogen elemental and isotopic ratios as ecological indicators of global change34
MOPREDAScentury: a long-term monthly precipitation grid for the Spanish mainland34
Application of a new net primary production methodology: a daily to annual-scale data set for the North Sea, derived from autonomous underwater gliders and satellite Earth observation34
Radar and ground-level measurements of clouds and precipitation collected during the POPE 2020 campaign at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica34
Satellite-based analysis of ocean-surface stress across the ice-free and ice-covered polar oceans34
A new operational Mediterranean diurnal optimally interpolated sea surface temperature product within the Copernicus Marine Service34
Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”33
Enhanced dataset of global marine isoprene emissions from biogenic and photochemical processes for the period 2001–202033
The Modern Ocean Sediment Archive and Inventory of Carbon (MOSAIC): version 2.033
A new magnetic anomaly map for Greenland based on a combination of equivalent source modeling and spherical harmonic expansion33
Tracer-based Rapid Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation (TRACE)33
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) Global Lightning Climatology (WGLC) and time series, 2022 update33
The Italian Archive of Historical Earthquake Data, ASMI33
GlobalGeoTree: a multi-granular vision-language dataset for global tree species classification33
A high-resolution temperature–salinity dataset observed by autonomous underwater vehicles for the evolution of mesoscale eddies and associated submesoscale processes in the South China Sea32
A new method for estimating atmospheric turbulence from global high-resolution radiosonde data and comparison with the Thorpe method32
Ice core chemistry database: an Antarctic compilation of sodium and sulfate records spanning the past 2000 years32
Multidecadal reconstruction of terrestrial water storage changes by combining pre-GRACE satellite observations and climate data32
What is climate change doing in the Himalaya? Thirty years of the Pyramid Meteorological Network (Nepal)32
Spatially distributed measurements of aerosols and stable isotopes in water vapour and precipitation in coastal Northern Norway during the ISLAS2021 campaign32
Processing methodology for the ITS_LIVE Sentinel-1 ice velocity products31
An updated synthesis of ocean total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements from 1993 to 2023: the SNAPO-CO 2 -v2 dataset31
GRACE and GRACE-FO mascons for ocean dynamic applications31
EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach30
An integrated dataset of ground hydrothermal regimes and soil nutrients monitored in some previously burned areas in hemiboreal forests in Northeast China during 2016–202230
Gridded rainfall erosivity (2014–2022) in mainland China using 1 min precipitation data from densely distributed weather stations30
Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008–2019) for the East–Taylor subbasin (western United States)30
Ocean cross-validated observations from R/Vs L'Atalante , Maria S. Merian , and Met30
A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast30
The Dutch real-time gauge-adjusted radar precipitation product30
Retrieving ground-level PM 2.5 concentrations in China (2013–2021) with a numerical-model-informed testbed to mitigate sample-imbalance-induced biase29
The CISE-LOCEAN seawater isotopic database (1998–2021)29
Development of the long-term harmonized multi-satellite SIF (LHSIF) dataset at 0.05° resolution (1995–2024)29
Monsoon Asia Rice Calendar (MARC): a gridded rice calendar in monsoon Asia based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images29
The new seismic catalog of the Gargano area (Southern Italy) after a decade of seismic monitoring by OTRIONS network29
Historical and future weather data for dynamic building simulations in Belgium using the regional climate model MAR: typical and extreme meteorological year and heatwaves29
High-resolution inventory and classification of retrogressive thaw slumps in West Siberia28
Seasonal patterns and diagnostic values of δ 2 H, δ 18 28
A 1 km soil organic carbon density dataset with depth of 20 and 100 cm from 1985 to 2020 in China28
A 30 m spatial resolution dataset of ecosystem services in China for 2000, 2010, and 202028
Annual carbon emissions from land-use change in China from 1000 to 201928
A lake salinity dataset produced via microwave and optical imageries28
Microwave radiometry experiment for snow in Altay, China: time series of in situ data for electromagnetic and physical features of snowpack28
Creation and analysis of a multi-hazard dataset: Tenerife (Canary Islands) as a case study28
ForestScan: a unique multiscale dataset of tropical forest structure across 3 continents including terrestrial, UAV and airborne LiDAR and in-situ forest census data28
A global daily gap-filled chlorophyll- a dataset in open oceans during 2001–2021 from multisource information using convolutional neural networks27
A Sentinel-2 machine learning dataset for tree species classification in Germany27
Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137 Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer27
Fire weather index data under historical and shared socioeconomic pathway projections in the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project from 1850 to 210027
Global Carbon Budget 202327
Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production27
UGS-1m: fine-grained urban green space mapping of 31 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework26
12 years of continuous atmospheric O 2 , CO 2 and APO data from Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory 26
Advancing geodynamic research in Antarctica: reprocessing GNSS data to infer consistent coordinate time series (GIANT-REGAIN)26
EEAR-Clim: a high-density observational dataset of daily precipitation and air temperature for the Extended European Alpine Region26
Four-century history of land transformation by humans in the United States (1630–2020): annual and 1 km grid data for the HIStory of LAND changes (HISLAND-US)26
Meteorological, snow and soil data, CO 2 , water and energy fluxes from a low-Arctic valley of Northern Quebec26
Estimation of long-term gridded cloud radiative kernel and radiative effects based on cloud fraction26
MDAS: a new multimodal benchmark dataset for remote sensing26
Biologically effective daily radiant exposure for erythema appearance, previtamin D 3 synthesis, and clearing of psoriatic lesions derived from eryth26
OceanSODA-UNEXE: a multi-year gridded Amazon and Congo River outflow surface ocean carbonate system dataset25
Antarctic Ice Sheet grounding line discharge from 1996–202425
Mapping global leaf inclination angle (LIA) based on field measurement data25
Ground-based atmospheric measurements at the Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden): data & trends (2009–2025)25
In situ-measured benthic fluxes of dissolved inorganic phosphorus in the Baltic Sea25
CCAV-10m: an annual spatiotemporal dataset for eastern coastal China’s wetland vegetation by integrating Sentinel-1/2 observations via deep learning25
High-resolution physicochemical dataset of atmospheric aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings25
A vegetation phenology dataset developed by integrating multiple sources using the reliability ensemble averaging method25
A global gridded dataset for cloud vertical structure from combined CloudSat and CALIPSO observations25
Hourly historical and near-future weather and climate variables for energy system modelling25
SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database24
Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach24
Modern air, englacial and permafrost temperatures at high altitude on Mt Ortles (3905 m a.s.l.), in the eastern European Alps24
Normalized difference vegetation index maps of pure pixels over China for estimation of fractional vegetation cover24
EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe24
Multispecies and high-spatiotemporal-resolution database of vehicular emissions in Brazil24
Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations24
Global Emissions Inventory from Open Biomass Burning (GEIOBB): utilizing Fengyun-3D global fire spot monitoring data24
Peat-DBase v.1: a compiled database of global peat depth measurements24
The ULR-repro3 GPS data reanalysis and its estimates of vertical land motion at tide gauges for sea level science24
Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during EUREC 4 A23
Measurement of the ice-nucleating particle concentration with the Portable Ice Nucleation Experiment during the Pallas Cloud Experiment 202223
The polar mesospheric cloud dataset of the Balloon Lidar Experiment (BOLIDE)23
An observational network of ground surface temperature under different land-cover types on the northeastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau23
High-resolution observations of the ocean upper layer south of Cape St. Vincent, the western northern margin of the Gulf of Cádiz23
cigChannel: a large-scale 3D seismic dataset with labeled paleochannels for advancing deep learning in seismic interpretation23
A repository of measured soil freezing characteristic curves: 1921 to 202122
ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change22
A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 522
Predictive mapping of organic carbon stocks in surficial sediments of the Canadian continental margin22
Full-coverage 250 m monthly aerosol optical depth dataset (2000–2019) amended with environmental covariates by an ensemble machine learning model over arid and semi-arid areas, NW China22
A 1 km soil moisture dataset over eastern CONUS generated by assimilating SMAP data into the Noah-MP land surface model22
A new global oceanic multi-model net primary productivity data product22
Europe's adaptation to the energy crisis: reshaped gas supply–transmission–consumption structures and driving factors from 2022 to 202422
A first approach towards dual-hemisphere sea ice reference measurements from multiple data sources repurposed for evaluation and product intercomparison of satellite altimetry22
Updates to C-LSAT 2.1 and the development of high-resolution land surface air temperature and diurnal temperature range datasets22
Near-real-time atmospheric and oceanic science products of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 geostationary satellites over the South China Sea22
Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords22
Surface p CO 2 and hydrography in the dense water formation area of the southern Adriatic22
A new global dataset of mountain glacier centerlines and lengths22
Permafrost–wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes22
GloCAB: global cropland burned area from mid-2002 to 202022
PROMICE | GC-NET automatic weather station data22
GFC2020: a global map of forest land use for year 2020 to support the EU Deforestation Regulation21
State of Wildfires 2024–202521
Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)21
Calving fronts and where to find them: a benchmark dataset and methodology for automatic glacier calving front extraction from synthetic aperture radar imagery21
The Western Channel Observatory: a century of physical, chemical and biological data compiled from pelagic and benthic habitats in the western English Channel21
Crop-specific management history of phosphorus fertilizer input (CMH-P) in the croplands of the United States: reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up data sources21
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